Friday, April 23

It's only 8:10pm and Steph and I have already called it a night. I've been really exhausted today and neither of us felt like doing much. She is at my house with me right now and we're trying to watch Big (with Tom Hanks) but we can't figure out how to work the TV, so we will be exploring some other options within the house this evening.

Today was a wonderful school day! I had so much fun. I got to teach the kids a lesson about Indiana from a powerpoint I made. I included photos of IU basketball and football, Colts games, cornfields, the Indy 500, farm animals, snow, Michael Jackson, etc. They were all my very own pictures from my camera, so it was really fun. I even included small video clips of the Indy 500 and of an IU basketball game. They thought the Indy 500 stuff was really great. They asked me about a million questions too, especially about tornadoes. I told them about a time my family and I were driving through a huge storm and had to go inside a random house because there was a man in his yard yelling "tornado!" I taught them how students in school have to sit during tornado drills, and they thought it was really funny that my family used to hide in the bathtub during tornado warnings.

Arts week ended today. All parents were invited to the school for tea, and then all the students came into the gym ("hall") for a presentation of all the fun things they did all week. There is a huge mural Miss Caulwell coordinated. Every kid and staff member painted a square of it, and I was even asked to paint one! During the ceremony they had an "initial unveiling" of the finished product. I couldn't take pictures because all the parents were in the way, but I MOST definitely will later because the whole thing is truly amazing.

After school Steph and I went to Bray for a little bit of shopping/browsing. I FINALLY got some new tennis shoes that don't feel like I'm walking barefooted. I wore them out of the store and realized about an hour later that the tag was still hanging from the left shoe. No surprise, I accidentally leave tags on my clothes too often.

We ate at an American-like restaurant tonight called Eddie Rocket's. It is supposed to look like a diner from the 50's I think. We both got big cheeseburgers, french fries, and milk shakes! YUMMMM.. I've missed cheeseburgers. And I think the best thing of all was being able to order "french fries" instead of having to say "chips." On second thought, maybe the best part was having a ketchup bottle at my table instead of having to be the annoying American asking the waitress for more ketchup packets.

Hello greasy America.

I am feeling really tired and my back hurts today, so Steph and I headed back early. Hopefully we'll get the DVD player working...


This picture is dedicated to my Central kids! They asked me if pop cans were smaller here. I told them that the regular ones are the same size as in the States, but they do have these teeny ones available. Sadly, the Diet Coke tastes different here, and I'm in favor of it back home, so I didn't drink much of this.